Lampworking Glass Demo
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Uploaded by fireworksjewellery on Nov 20, 2008
Lampworking is a form of glassworking using a torch to melt and shape molten glass. Here, Georgina Black of Fire Works Gallery and Studio in Bristol (UK), demos making a simple glass bead.
Although the technique dates back to ancient times, it truly flowered in the 14th century in Murano, Italy.
Early lampworking was done in the flame of an oil lamp, with the artist blowing air into the flame through a pipe. Times have changed, and the practice is now also known as torchworking, or flameworking, as torches burning propane, or natural gas, mixed with air or oxygen are mainly used to work with the glass.
Simply put, lampworking involves rods of glass being melted by the heat of a torch. The molten glass is then, in the case of bead making, wrapped around a steel mandrel which is coated in a clay based solution. Tools like a titanium pick or a graphite paddle are used to move and shape the glass, which must be kept at or near a molten state while being worked with.
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Thank you for making this video. I just bought some earrings made in the Czech Republic using this technique. They're beautiful!
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Nice setup, I find it to be a bit easier (and safer) to work with the glass from the rod to the bead closer to or still in the flame and NOT to let the gather build as it's easier to add more glass than to take away excess that ends up on the bead from heating too much glass, getting the glass TOO hot.
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acessem jcdelfino
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Nice Nortel! does that have the pre-mix top(thats the one i bought)
also, do you run on tanked oxy or a concentrator? and how does that work?
nice bead tutorial! thanks!
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thanks for the mean vid! very helpful!
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such a good video and explanation! thanks!!!
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Excellent commentary.
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keep rockin that Nortel.....do you ever bust out that big flame? make a massive bead!~
BradenHammondGlass 2 years ago
Of course I do! That's all I usually use - would go crazy waiting for glass to melt otherwise! Hope all is well out there in B.C. - miss Joanne and Maria. Not as much lampwork out here. Hope all is well! Georgina
fireworksjewellery 2 years ago